Accuracy comparison between techniques for the establishment of calibration intervals: Application to atomic clocks

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1167-1172

  Macii, David ^a   Tavella, Patrizia ^b   Perone, Elena ^b   Carbone, Paolo ^a   Petri, Dario ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ELETTROTECNICO NAZIONALE GALILEO FERRARIS   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL METHODS; TIME MEASUREMENT;

CALIBRATION INTERVALS; CESIUM ATOMIC CLOCKS; METROLOGICAL ANALYSIS; SIMPLE RESPONSE METHOD; WIENER PROCESS;

ATOMIC CLOCKS;

EID: 4043177586     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2004.830767     Document Type: Article

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